Tool.



J. C. OWENS.

TOOL.

APPLIOATioN FILED JUNE 7,1911.

Patented Dec. 19, 1911.

JASPER C. OWENS, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFDRNIA.

TOOL.

Application filed June 7,

Specioation o'f Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1911.

1911. Serial N0. 631,710.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that. I, JASPER C. Owens, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the (county of lios Angeles, State of California, have invented new and use ful Improvements in Tools, of which the following is' a specification.

This invention relates to a tool for planing the edge of eut linoleum or other like substance; and theinventionConsists mainly in the provision of such a tool in Convenient form t'or use by workmen laying linoleum and in surfh form that it may be eolnhined with another tool, such as a linoleuin knife.

1n the drawings I have shown my presont invention in combination with a linoleum knife and on a handle to which any kind of tool may he aiiplited. Although I contemplate the most ellieient form to be in Connection with a knife for use in cutting linoleon'l, I may also mount` my new tool on its own handle and u e it` without connection with any other tool; or I may find it more convenient to use the handle for the mounting of a screw driver or some other tool ot' general use.

ln the aceoinpairving drawings: Figure l is an elevation, partly in seotlon, of my impl-med tool shown in roinhination Vith a linoleuni knife ot' my own design. Fig. 2 a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a modified forni. Fig. 4 is a. plan showing a modified form of handle adaptable to any tool.

In the drawings 5 designates a handle of suitable size and configuration and shown as adapted to Carry a sheath 6 in which movable and adjustable blade 7 is mounted (Figs. 1 and 2). In Fig. 3 I have shown handle 5*l as provided with a knife blade 6 of the ordinary style, and in Fig. 4 I have shown the handle 5 equipped wlth a slot 7 adapted to receive a knife or any other tool. By these showings I illustrate that the handle may he arranged to hold my sort of knife or other tool, and especially a tool of convenience to a Workman laying linoleum.

At the end of the handle 5 a slot 8 is eut- Whieh has a bottom 9 diaonal to the length of the handle. Beyond tlf-ie bottom 9 of the l slot a recess 10 is cut through the handle and in this recess a planer knife 11 is mounted. Planer knie 11 is mounted on a small block 12, theblock being held tightly` between the side walls ot' recess 10 and clamped in place hy means of a bolt 13 passing through the handle. Knife 1l is placed with its edges in slots 14 so as to he held from rotation about bolt Jb. Small screws l5 passing through slots 16 in knife il allow the longitudinal adjustment of the knife on block 12 and in slots 14, so that its cutting edge 11*1 may he projected beyond the bottom 9 of slot 8 as much as desired.

For trimming and smoothing the edges of linoleum the handle is grasped at its forward end andthe slot 8 placed over the edge of the linoleuni, the tool being fhen drawn toward the user. Knife 11 acts as a plane on the edge of the linoleuln, smoothing and straightening the edge and producing a neat finish. The handle is in a eol'ivenient position to be grasped by the user, projecting forwardly and upwardly diagonally when bottom S) of slot 8 is laid flatly on the edge of the linoleum held horizontally.

For establishments where there is a large amount of linoleum cutting and finishing to he done the form of tool in whieh a separate handle is used may be more convenient;

Vbut for use outside such an establishment, where, for instance, the workman lays a small piece of linoleum in a distant: dwe1l ing, it may be far more convenient to have his linoleum knife and plane mounted- 011 the same handle. This I have consequently shown as the referred form but without limiting mysellP to such a combination.

Having described my invention, I claim:

A device of the. class described, comprising a handle, a slot cut longitudinally of the handle at the rear end on its under side and having its upper wall length of the handle, a recess eut in the handle aboiethe top ofthe slot, the Side walls of the recess having opposite grooves cut therein, a planer block mounted in the recess, a planer knife mounted in the diagonal to the grooves in the recess Walls and having its In witness that I claim the foregoing I cutting edge projecting beyond the top of have hereunto subscribed my name this 1st the slot, and means for holding the planer day of June 1911.

block and planer knife in position in the JASPER C. OWENS. 5 recess, the planer knife pointing forwardly Witnesses:

and downwardly so as to act when the hen- JAMES T. BARKELEW,

dle is pulled forwardly. J Ae. H. BALLAGH. 

